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Axios

American workers savor quicker commutes than before COVID

The share of workers with relatively speedy commutes has increased compared to pre-pandemic times, per a new Axios analysis …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #346

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

BBC

Bansko: Bulgaria's unlikely new digital nomad hub

Set scenically at the base of the Pirin Mountains, Bansko has quietly emerged as one of the world’s newest remote …

The New York Times

Cities Foster Serendipity. But Can They Do It When Workers Are at Home?

Revisiting a theory about chance collisions and innovation.

Fortune

Expecting a return to office will boost worker productivity is 'magical thinking,' says Meta's former director of remote work

The “balancing act” of the new age of work was the issue at hand during a panel at Dropbox’s Work In …

Business Insider

FBI says North Korea deployed thousands of IT workers to get remote jobs in US with fake IDs

Thousands of information technology workers contracting with US companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of …

NordLayer

Global Remote Work Index 2023

Discover the best scoring countries to accommodate remote employees.

Fast Company

Meta's former director of remote work is now leading one of the world's biggest flexible work programs

While some companies are mandating a return to the office, Atlassian’s Annie Dean says the future of work will become …

Bloomberg

Productivity Matters, But Not as a Political Football for Remote Work

A combination of technological and social changes at work have turbocharged the topic.

The New York Times

The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead

Working from home is here to stay. I can prove it with data — lots and lots of data showing that returning to the office …

The New York Times

Here's What We Do and Don't Know About the Effects of Remote Work

Three years into a mass workplace experiment, we are beginning to understand more about how work from home is reshaping …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #346

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Denverite

Is giving people cash working? What six months of Denver's Basic Income Project tell us

The study marks the mid-way point in the nation’s largest basic income study.

Financial Times

Office space vacancies in US and London reach at least 20-year highs

Large companies hold off committing to real estate deals as working patterns remain in flux.

The Guardian

'People are happier in a walkable neighborhood': the US community that banned cars

A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So …

Fortune

'People are panicking to try to move here': Portugal may have inadvertently sparked a fresh influx of digital nomads after setting a deadline for foreign tax breaks

After years of overtures to the rest of the world to bring them to its Mediterranean climate, Portugal might be closing its …

KPMG

Remote Workers – potential changes to the UN model tax treaty

The UN’s Tax Committee is considering an addition to Article 15 of its model treaty, targeted at the employment income …

Harvard Business Review

The Future of Mental Health at Work Is Safety, Community, and a Healthy Organizational Culture

A new study exploring the ever-changing landscape of workers’ experiences and perspectives around mental health, …

Gallup

The Future of the Office Has Arrived: It's Hybrid

Since the pandemic ended, the workforce has watched and wondered: Will we return to the office and work like we did in 2019? …

Harvard Business Review

Why Kindness at Work Pays Off

When anxiety is high and morale is low, kindness isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity. With mass layoffs, economic …

Quartz

Bad bosses are harder to hide on remote teams

3 ways leaders can shine in an asynchronous environment.

Fortune

CEOs want employees back in the office, and 90% say they'll likely give raises and promotions to those who actually show up, survey finds

Some CEOs have been vexed by remote work for the better part of three years. They’ve been irked to no end by empty …

NoDesk

NoDesk Newsletter: Issue #346

This week’s NoDesk newsletter features 36 new remote jobs, and the week’s top remote work reads.

Business Insider

Hybrid workers are 'coffee badging' to spend less time in the office and dodge RTO mandates

Hybrid workers have a new way to dodge return-to-office mandates: “coffee badging.”

The workplace trend involves …

The New York Times

On the Future of Work, a Reporter Looks Back

Emma Goldberg, a journalist on the Business desk of The New York Times, reflects on her evolving beat as tens of thousands of …

Economic Innovation Group

Remote Work Is Less Common Than We Thought

A new estimate of remote work from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggests that remote work is less common than …

Soatok

Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It

I quit my job towards the end of last month.

When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about …

The Wall Street Journal

The Companies Bringing the Office to Remote Workers

After employees moved away during the pandemic, some businesses are opening workspaces in their new cities.

NIH

The Impact of Working from Home on Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study of Canadian Worker's Mental Health during the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a considerable expansion in the way work settings are structured, with a continuum emerging …